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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Mandates | After the war, much of the Middle East came under the control of France and Britain. These arrangements were called ________ whereby "a nation officially administered a territory on behalf of the League of Nations." |
| Tannenberg | At what battle were the Russians defeated on August 30, 1914? |
| Serbia | By 1914 _______, supported by Russia, was determined to create a large Slavic state in the Balkans. |
| Alsace-Lorraine | France wanted to regain control of ____________ |
| Sarajevo | In what city did the assassination that started the war take place? |
| Self-Determination | One of Wilson's '14 Points' was specifically aimed at creating new nations. Which point was this? |
| Utopia | Prior to World War One, prosperity and progress had convinced many people that Europe was "one the verge of creating the _______ that humans had dreamed of for centuries" |
| Balkans | Slavic minorities in the _____ and the Austrian Empire dreamed of creating their own national states. |
| Blank Check | What assurance did Germany give to Austria that she would back her up? |
| Conscription | What is the word for drafting men into the military? |
| Lusitania | What passenger ship did the Germans sink in 1915 that led to increased calls for American involvement in WWI? |
| Schliefen Plan, Battle of Jutland | What was the name of the German plan for the invasion of France? What was the single naval battle between German and British "surface" ships in WWI? |
| Trench | When the German and French and British armies stalemated, the Western Front became bogged down in ________ warfare. |
| 1914 | What year did WWI begin? |
| Serbia | Which country became the nucleus of the new state of Yugoslavia? |
| Franz-Ferdinand | Whose assassination triggered the beginning of WWI? |
| Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary | The Triple Alliance consisted of _________, ___________ and ____________ |
| Britain, France, Russia | The Triple Entente consisted of _________, __________, and ____________ |
| Nationalism | The Ottoman Empire had a similar problem to the of the Habsburgs. What caused the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires? |
| Serbia | When Russia threatened Austria-Hungary dyring the first Balkan crisis, she was in turn threatened by Austria's "bodyguard," who was _________. |
| Bosnian assassin of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand | Who was Gavrilo Princip? |
| Assassination of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand | What was the casus belli of WWI? |
| Central Powers | The Triple Alliance was later called ________? |
| Allied Powers | The Triple Entente was later called _________? |
| Attrition | Once the opposing armies had entrenched, it became a war of ________________. |
| Switzerland, North Sea | Opposing trenches extended from _____________ to __________. |
| Brest-Litovsk | Russia's withdrawal from the war was made official by the Treaty of ______________. |
| Unrestricted U-Boat Warfare | The immediate reason for United States entering the war was German ______________? |
| Territory in the US | What did Germany offer to Mexico if she could attack the United States? |
| Britain, France, USA | Although there were 32 nations on the victorious allied side, all the big decisions at the Paris Peace Conference were made by _______________________. |
| Uninvaded | Although Germany surrendered, what was her condition at the end of the war? |
| France | The area of Alsace-Lorraine went to ______. |
| Versailles | The final settlement in 1919 was the Treaty of ___________. |
| Broke up along National Lines | Metternich's nightmare for the Habsburg Empire came true when _______________. |
| USA | The League of Nations might have worked with the support of the Big Three victorious powers, but ___________ refused to join the league. |
| Yugoslavia | The Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes were joined together into one new country called ___________. |
| Ottoman, Russian, German, Habsburg | When the war was over, four empires no longer existed. They were ____________, __________, ____________, and __________ |
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